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• Lerc
  You have to go in with your eyes open wth SBCs. If you have a specific task for it and you can see that it either already supports it or all the required software is there and it just needs to be gathered, then they can be great gadgets.Often they can go their entire lifespan without some hardware feature being usable because of lack of software.The blunt truth is that someone has to make that software, and you can't expect someone to make it for you. They may make it for you, and that's great, but really if you want a feature supported, it either has to already be supported, or you have to make the support.It will be interesting to see if AI gets to the point that more people are capable of developing their own resources. It's a hard task and a lot of devices means the hackers are spread thin. It would be nice to see more people able to meaningfully contribute.
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  BirAdam
  I love that OrangePi is making good hardware, but after my experience with the OrangePi 5 Max, I won’t be buying more hardware from them again. The device is largely useless due to a lack of software support. This also happened with the MangoPi MQ-Pro. I’ll just stick with RPi. I may not get as much hardware for the money, but the software support is fantastic.
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  zzzoom
  At some point SBCs that require a custom linux image will become unacceptable, right?Right?
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  james-clef
  Something in me wants to buy every SBC and/or microcontroller that is advertised to me.
• adrianwaj
  One or two USB-C 3.2 Gen2 ports are all that's required - can then plug in a hub or dock. eg: https://us.ugreen.com/collections/usb-hub?sort_by=price-desc...Can also plug in a power bank. https://us.ugreen.com/collections/power-bank?sort_by=price-d...The advantage is that if the machine breaks or is upgraded, the dock and pb can be retained. Would also distribute the price.The dock and pb can also be kept away to lower heat to avoid a fan in the housing, ideally.Better hardware should end up leading to better software - its main problem right now.This 10-in-1 dock even has an SSD enclosure for $80 https://us.ugreen.com/products/ugreen-10-in-1-usb-c-hub-ssd (no affiliation) (no drivers required)I'd have another dock/power/screen combo for traveling and portable use.
• ggdxwz
  This seems to be an overkill for most of my workloads that require an SBC. I would choose Jetson for anything computationally intensive, as Orange Pi 6 Plus's NPU is not even utilized due to lack of software support. For other workloads, this one seems a bit too large in terms of formfactor and power consumption, and older RK3588 should still be sufficient
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  jonpalmisc
  Looks like the SoC (CIX P1) has Cortex-A720/A520 cores which are Armv9.2, nice.I've still been on the hunt for a cheap Arm board with a Armv8.3+ or Arvm9.0+ SoC for OSDev stuff, but it's hard to find them in hobbyist price range (this board included, $700-900 USD from what I see).The NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nanos looked good but unfortunately SWD/JTAG is disabled unless you pay for the $2k model...
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  Neywiny
  Disappointing on the NPU. I have found it's a point where industry wide improvement is necessary. People talk tokens/sec, model sizes, what formats are supported... But I rarely see an objective accuracy comparison. I repeatedly see that AI models are resilient to errors and reduced precision which is what allows the 1 bit quantization and whatnot.But at a certain point I guess it just breaks? And they need an objective "I gave these tokens, I got out those tokens". But I guess that would need an objective gold standard ground truth that's maybe hard to come by.
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  youngNed
  I'm a big fan of raspberry pi, I have many, in fact I have so many I have:``` alias findpi='sudo nmap -sP 192.168.1.0/24 | awk '\''/^Nmap/{ip=$NF}/B8:27:EB|DC:A6:32|E4:5F:01|28:CD:C1/{print ip}'\''' ```On every `.bashrc` i have.But I just don't get... everything, I don't get the org, I don't get the users on hn, I'm like skinner in the 'no the kids are wrong' meme.It's a lambda. It's a cheap, plug in, ssh, forget. And it's bloody wonderful.If you buy a 1 or 2 off ebay, ok maybe a 3.After that? Get a damn computer.Want more bandwidth on the rj45? Get a computer.Want faster usb? Get a computer.Want ssd? Get a computerWant a retro computing device? Get a computer.Want a computer experience? Etc etc etc, i don't need to labour this.Want something that will sit there, have ssh and run python scripts for years without a reboot? Spend 20 quid on ebay.People demanded faster horses. And the raspi org, for some, damn fool, reason, tried to give them.There are people bemoaning the fact that raspberry pi's aren't able to run LLM's. And will then, without irony, complain that the prices are too high. For the love of God, raspi org, stop listening to dickheads on the Internet. Stop paying youtubers to shill. Stop and focus.You won't win this game
• preisschild
  Unfortunately only available atm for extremely high prices. I'd like to pick some up to create a ceph cluster (with 1x 18tb hdd osd per node in an 8 node cluster with 4+2 erasure coding)